I did my whole BSc degree in CS like this, without Internet. That was in the mid 2000s. It was exceptionally rare not to have a home connection by then in my ci

I did my whole BSc degree in CS like this, without Internet. That was in the mid 2000s. It was exceptionally rare not to have a home connection by then in my city (a big one in the EU). When I told my classmates they thought I was kidding. My dad, a uni professor, simply didn't want me to have one as he thought it was too distracting. And I kind of agree now, but I thought he was crazy. I remember my best friend asked his dad to take his Ethernet cable away during the exam period. Instead of rehearsing, he was playing online games. And he couldn't stop, thereby failing most courses. This was a pretty smart guy that had aced university entrance tests. It kind of worked. I got the best GPA ever in my university, and I had the best GPA across all CS schools in the country. I must say at the time having a connection didn't bring as much into the table as it does now, with e.g. quick answers on Stack Overflow. I bought dozens of textbooks, and I had things like MSDN installed locally to access e.g. C++ STL docs. It also forced me to be quite resourceful, as I had to solve everything on my own and offline. For example, I didn't login remotely to university servers to do DB assignments. Instead, I had my own local Oracle deployment and so on. Quite an experience.